SC MAGAZINE [Haymarket Media, AU, UK] - By David Harley, ESET senior research fellow - August 19 2011
I must be one of the last people in the AV industry to have read Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash (I bought it at some airport or other in the U.S. last year), in which much of the action takes place in the Metaverse, a virtual reality version of (or successor to) the internet. I'm rather pleased not to be living in a world that so readily integrates violence into both the real and virtual universes, but there's no denying that virtual reality is a lot more real than it used to be.
At this year's EICAR conference, my friend Eddy Willems demonstrated a virtual version of the conference taking place in Second Life. It seemed a little sparse compared to the real event, and showed considerably less drama than Neal Stephenson's vision, but was nevertheless an interesting experiment in future directions. ...
Edited :: See Original Report Here
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